My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... UAUPÉS ALFRED R. WALLACE . 1853 . ( From a photograph by Mr. Sims ) NATIVE HOUSE , WOKAN , ARU ISLANDS ( Where I lived two weeks in March , 1859 ) MY FAITHFUL MALAY BOY - ALI . 1855-1862 MAP OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO ALFRED R. WALLACE ...
... UAUPÉS ALFRED R. WALLACE . 1853 . ( From a photograph by Mr. Sims ) NATIVE HOUSE , WOKAN , ARU ISLANDS ( Where I lived two weeks in March , 1859 ) MY FAITHFUL MALAY BOY - ALI . 1855-1862 MAP OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO ALFRED R. WALLACE ...
Page 283
... Uaupés as far as the second cataract at Juaurité . I then returned with my collections to Barra , having determined to go much farther up the Uaupés in order to obtain , if possible , the white umbrella bird which I had been positively ...
... Uaupés as far as the second cataract at Juaurité . I then returned with my collections to Barra , having determined to go much farther up the Uaupés in order to obtain , if possible , the white umbrella bird which I had been positively ...
Page 284
... Uaupés , and at Javita , on a tributary of the Orinoko , if the whole of the dryest months could be spent there . So far as I have heard , no English traveller has to this day ascended the Uaupés river so far as I did , and no collector ...
... Uaupés , and at Javita , on a tributary of the Orinoko , if the whole of the dryest months could be spent there . So far as I have heard , no English traveller has to this day ascended the Uaupés river so far as I did , and no collector ...
Page 284
... Uaupés , and another up the Isanna , not so much for my collections , which I do not expect to be very profitable there , but because I am so much interested in the country and the people that I am determined to see and know more of it ...
... Uaupés , and another up the Isanna , not so much for my collections , which I do not expect to be very profitable there , but because I am so much interested in the country and the people that I am determined to see and know more of it ...
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... Uaupés were at once seen to be something totally different . They had nothing that we call clothes ; they had peculiar ornaments , tribal marks , etc .; they all carried weapons or tools of their own manufacture ; they were living in a ...
... Uaupés were at once seen to be something totally different . They had nothing that we call clothes ; they had peculiar ornaments , tribal marks , etc .; they all carried weapons or tools of their own manufacture ; they were living in a ...
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A. R. Wallace acquaintance afterwards Amazon animals Aru Islands beautiful beetles birds of paradise boys Brecknockshire brother butterflies called character collections colour Darwin delight England English fact father feet forest garden gave George Silk give Greenell half heard Hertford Hoddesdon hundred insects interesting island journey kind land letter lived Lombok London look Malacca Malay Archipelago miles Moluccas months mountain native Natural Selection nature nearly Neath never obtained origin of species paper parish perhaps plants portion Radnorshire remark remember Rio Negro river rock Sarawak seemed seen side Singapore Sir Charles sister sketch slope soon species stayed surveying Ternate thought Tidore tion told took town tropical Uaupés valley various village voyage walk Wallace week Welsh whole wood